Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.

See, unlike most hackers, I get little joy out of figuring out how to install the latest toy.

Mostly I use the O2 as an X terminal, however, running my apps on Linux and displaying remotely.

Linux is only free if your time has no value.

Your "use case" should be, there's a 22 year old college student living in the dorms. How will this software get him laid?

If you give a cracker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is carve his initials in it. Fortunately, most crackers get over that once they're through puberty.

You can divide our industry into two kinds of people: those who want to go work for a company to make it successful, and those who want to go work for a successful company.

To a database person, every nail looks like a thumb. Or something like that.

If you want to do something that's going to change the world, build software that people want to use instead of software that managers want to buy.

If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works.

I think Linux is a great thing, because Linux is an alternative to Windows, and because, of all the operating systems that are at all relevant today, Unix is the best of a bad lot.

Excellence doesn't mean we have to be 100% better in any one thing: it means we strive to be 1% better in 100 things.

I'm still good friends with everybody from 'Teen Wolf.' I still see them, and I go to Jeff Davis' for 'Teen Wolf' night when I can. It was such a rewarding experience. That's such a fun set.

If you eliminate what no longer works, you illuminate what does.

I never have been sick. I don't even know what it means to be sick. I hear other players say they have a cold. I just don't know what it would feel like to have a cold - I never had one.

Real education has to draw out the best from the boys and girls to be educated.

Okay," I said, clasping her hand. "I swear it. The next time I do something stupid that might get me killed, you can come along.

I'm contemplating thinking about thinking...but....it's overrated - just get another drink in!

My peer network is international. It's people all over the place who I know, and respect their work. It's not really delineated by traditional nationalist ideas.

I'm not into wrinkles.

I purposely try to hire people who are really self-motivated and good at what they do, and then I just leave them alone.